Quotes About Standards

Designers and advertisers like the idea of my breasts, waist line, long legs, and long neck - but have literally made gagging noises at my facial features.

When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.

People equate health to a picture in a magazine of a 6-foot-tall thin woman with her skin rolls Photoshopped and her waist edited to be tiny, so when they see bodies that jiggle and move around like they do, they assume it's wrong.

To be 40 plus and not have a 26-inch waist when you're playing the lead can be challenging at times.

My life motto is basically to lower your standards and expectations so you're never disappointed and never put any trust in anything, and I try to prepare for the day that I wake up, and everyone I know is like, 'LOL JK best long-running practical joke ever', so I've never really let myself freak out or get too excited about anything.

No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Imagine if investors in Wal-Mart really cared about bribery at that company's overseas operations or safety standards at its overseas manufacturing plants. If investors pulled their capital, corporate leaders would have to respond.

It's about getting a more democratic Wales for the purpose of improving our economic performance, for improving the delivery of health care, for raising educational standards.

The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians.

The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.'

We're always compared to somebody in all walks of life, aren't we?

I don't think there's anyone that's more beautiful than Halle Berry.

The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.

I'm not a big fan of mediocre.

I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.

On screen, if I have to wear shorts or bikini for a scene, I should have the body for that.

No guy - and I mean no guy - should wear a bikini bottom.

There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am.

I think the black community has a lot to work on internally with what they deem successful.

We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

No matter what kind of film one makes, it boils down to whether it's good or not.

Someone will say, 'Well, that's good enough.' As soon as I hear 'Good enough,' it really bothers me. I spend as much time as I think I can on anything I do. I try to do that with the people that work with me. I try to get the best out of them.

This can not be about a race to the bottom.